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Electrified Freight: Trucking Will Grow & Big Logistics Players Will Dominate

December 17, 2024 admin batteries, carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, clean trucks, climate change, electric truck, Electric vehicles, Energy, Energy Storage, ev batteries, ev charging, green economy, green jobs, grid, investment, Manufacturing, microgrids, renewable energy, rooftop solar, Solar energy, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 02:23:18 +0000

Key takeaways Delivering inexpensive, reliable electric truck charging requires scale Major logistics, truck stop and turn-key services firms have the scale and will lead the way The big firms that embrace this will increase market share Movement of freight in the United States (U.S) is going to shift more and … [continued]

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New Report Establishes Baseline for Clean Energy Deployment in Energy Communities

December 17, 2024 admin clean power, energy efficiency, Energy Storage, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, inflation reduction act of 2022., investment tax credit (itc), lawrence berkeley national laboratory, Manufacturing, market research, policy & politics, policy research, production tax credit, research, Solar energy, solar investment tax credit, wind energy, wind production tax credit

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 23:17:57 +0000

For the first time, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 included place-based federal tax incentives for projects located in “Energy Communities,” which might alter the economic equation of where projects should be located. Storage projects may be eligible for a 10-point increase in the Investment Tax Credit (e.g., from 30% … [continued]

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Largest Floating Solar Power Plant in India Turned On

December 17, 2024 admin clean power, floating solar power, floating solar power plants, India, india solar, india solar power, Solar energy, solar power plants, tata power, tata power renewable energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 19:16:38 +0000

As I wrote a couple of days ago, one of the big and fun trends in the solar industry globally is the expansion of floating solar PV power plants. There’s just something fun about floating anything, and in this case particularly floating solar arrays. Floating solar power systems are making … [continued]

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Giant Solar Power Project To Highlight Water Conservation, Grassland Restoration

December 16, 2024 admin agrivoltaic, agrivoltaics, clean power, doral renewables, Energy, regenerative agriculture, regenerative farming, renewable energy, Solar energy, solar grazing, solar power plants, usa, wisconsin

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 16:25:03 +0000

A massive new 1.3 gigawatt solar power plant will feature thousands of acres of restored native grasslands while conserving water and reducing agricultural chemicals near a wildlife preserve.

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Great Lakes Shipping Grants Will Finalize Before Trump Takes Office

December 16, 2024 admin clean power, Cleveland, climate change, decarbonization, detroit, great lakes, Illinois, inflation reduction act of 2022., pollutants, Shipping

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 16:05:26 +0000

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to finalize more than $200 million in grant funding in the coming weeks to accelerate the clean energy transition at three Great Lakes shipping ports. That action will obligate the federal government to pay roughly $3 billion in grants under the program, even … [continued]

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Big Solar And Transmission News In Oregon, Wisconsin, & The Midwest

December 16, 2024 admin clean power, electricity transmission, grid, hvdc transmission lines, inflation reduction act of 2022., midcontinent independent system operator (miso), MISO, Oregon, policy & politics, ron wyden, Solar energy, sunstone solar, transmission, Transmission Lines, vista sands solar, wisconsin

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 13:57:49 +0000

Two large solar power plants have been approved this week, along with a new plan for more HVDC transmission lines.

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US DOE — Flurry of Solar & Wind Power Announcements

December 16, 2024 admin batteries, bipartisan infrastructure law, clean power, energy efficiency, Energy Storage, grid, heat pumps, jennifer granholm, Joe Biden, lighting, lithium-ion batteries, policy & politics, Puerto Rico, recycling, Smart Grid, Solar energy, subsidies, us department of energy (doe), wind energy, wind energy technologies office (weto), wind turbines

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 04:58:00 +0000

As Joe Biden’s time leading the United States approaches an end, various government agencies have been sprinting to get things done before they are at risk of being dropped and forgotten. Rather than try to cover each of these separately, let’s quickly roll through some of the announcements, and you … [continued]

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Residential Energy Storage Installations Hit All-Time High in USA

December 16, 2024 admin american clean power association, batteries, clean power, consumer technology, Energy Storage, grid, lithium-ion batteries, market research, policy research, research, Solar energy, wood mackenzie

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 03:58:10 +0000

It seems like yesterday that Ron Corio told me at a lunch with engineers that energy storage will be the next big thing since solar power. It was years ago. Well, development happened quickly, time went by, and now it’s here to stay. Residential energy storage installations just hit an … [continued]

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Hydrogen Ships Are Seeing Same Pattern As All Hydrogen Fleets

December 16, 2024 admin air quality, boats, carbon emissions, cargo shipping, clean power, clean transport, climate change, electric ferries, Electric vehicles, Energy, Europe, ferries, Fossil Fuels, green economy, hydrogen, hydrogen boats, investment, Manufacturing, marine energy, Oil, Shipping

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 03:37:54 +0000

As the years pass and more re-enactments of the Odyssey of the Hydrogen Fleet are played out, they get staged in multiple settings, much like Shakespeare’s Tempest being staged in a waterpark in Germany in 2019. In recent months, I’ve curated a couple of lists of hydrogen bus and train … [continued]

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Join CleanTechnica on BlueSky!

December 16, 2024 admin bluesky, clean power, clean transport, consumer technology, Electric vehicles, elon musk, smartphone apps, Solar energy, Twitter, wind energy

Credit to Author: Scott Cooney| Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 23:06:08 +0000

Jennifer wrote a great piece about the fragmentation of the EV scene on social media a few weeks ago, pointing out all the challenges associated with getting the right messaging out in a universe of often purposefully biased media. The mass “X-odus” from Elon Musk’s social media platform continues, with … [continued]

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